R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex

In 2019, Romania's R&D personnel by sector of performance, professional position and sex decreased by 0.8% compared to 2018, reaching 31,665.

Romania accounts for 1.1% of the EU-27 total of 2,922,303.

Romania ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.9% (from 31,391 in 2014).

Source: Eurostat dataset rd_p_persocc, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.